GlobalOEM Connected Car System Shipments to Exceed 39 Million
by 2016, Says ABI Research

May 01, 2012 11:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OEM connected car system shipments are expected to grow from 8.22
million in 2012 to 39.5 million in 2016. While the United States and
Western Europe remain the leading regions, car OEMs such as GM, Toyota,
Nissan, Hyundai, and Mercedes Benz increasingly look to China as the
next major expansion area for launching connected car solutions in order
to maintain or enhance their competitive position in this fledgling
market.

Dominique Bonte, vice president and group director, telematics and M2M,
comments, “Clearly the automotive industry has moved on from looking at
telematics and connected car solutions as a nice premium add-on option
to seeing bringing connectivity to the car as an essential tool to
create more value to the end user, driving loyalty via advanced
CRM-based customer experience tools and strengthening their overall
branding and positioning in an increasingly competitive market. In the
US, connected car solutions have already become a must have – the
dynamics of which were set in motion by Ford - with almost every single
OEM now having launched solutions including Chrysler, coming to the
party rather late with their enhanced Uconnect offer.”

While connected automotive infotainment continues to steal the
limelight, traditional safety and security functionality remains
important from an OEM perspective, due to either historical reasons (US
– GM OnStar) or driven by mandates such as eCall in Europe, ERA-GLONASS
emergency calling in Russia, and the Contran stolen vehicle legislation
in Brazil. Finally, usage based insurance (UBI) – aka insurance
telematics – is making a strong comeback.

ABI Research’s new “Connected
Car Market Data, Global” (http://www.abiresearch.com/research/1005472)
provides detailed forecasts of embedded, hybrid, and converged
connectivity solutions, including subscribers, service revenue, and
hardware shipments and revenues for the United States, Canada, Western
Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa and the
Middle East.

ABI Research provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of
trends in global connectivity and other emerging technologies. From
offices in North America, Europe and Asia, ABI Research’s worldwide team
of experts advises thousands of decision makers through 40+ research and
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